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American Vegan Society
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"The American Vegan Society is a nonprofit educational membership
organization teaching a compassionate way of living that includes
veganism. Together we explore and apply compassionate living concepts,
and reflect on them and ourselves. We learn how to revere the Earth, how
to save the animals, and how to care for ourselves. People follow a
vegan lifestyle for ethical reasons, for health, for the environment."
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The British
Vegan Society
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Fascinating! They are the original vegans:
"The Vegan Society, the world's first, was born in November 1944 - after
a lengthy gestation. As early as 1909 the ethics of consuming dairy
products were hotly debated within the vegetarian movement. In August
1944, Elsie Shrigley and Donald Watson (a conscientious objector later
to be acclaimed as the Vegan Society's Founder) agreed the desirability
of coordinating 'non-dairy vegetarians'; despite opposition from
prominent vegetarians unwilling to even consider adopting a diet free of
all animal products.
In November, Donald organized a London meeting of six like-minded
'non-dairy vegetarians' at which it was decided to form a new society
and adopt a new name to describe themselves - vegan derived from
VEGetariAN."
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Hong
Kong Vegan Society
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It's worth a visit to this site to read about the low
percentage of vegans compared with the west and how Hong Kong
measures up as vegan friendly.
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The Vegan
Society of Australia
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We are a diverse group of people representing a wide
range of ages with a wide range of interests. What we share in common is
a concern about the destruction that a diet and lifestyle based on
exploitation of animals is doing to our environment, our country and our
planet.
The seriousness of the issues we tackle does not preclude us from
having fun, however. Our social gatherings, including bushwalks,
discussion groups, video nights and the annual winter solstice dinner,
provide occasions to relax among people who sympathize with our views
and are also doing something practical about the issues involved."
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